by - July 26, 2017 4:01 pm
Residents and visitors continue to spend money at a healthy pace in the heart of Northeast Arkansas. Craighead County and Jonesboro set records for sales tax receipt collections in 2016,…
by - July 25, 2017 7:39 pm
U.S. Senate Republicans, with the aid of a tie breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence approved a procedural vote Tuesday to allow the healthcare debate to move forward. The…
by - July 24, 2017 7:51 pm
The chance to view a total solar eclipse can be a once-in-a lifetime event, and a group from Arkansas State University will journey to Missouri in August to view one….
by - July 24, 2017 4:51 pm
Arkansas farmers planted 425,000 cotton acres this year, nearly double the number planted in 2015. Low prices, Chinese cotton surpluses, and surging input costs could cause the number of acres…
by - July 20, 2017 4:34 pm
There is only one shoe last manufacturer left in the United States, and its only U.S. production plant is in Walnut Ridge. Lewiston, Maine-based Jones & Vining Industrial Products, founded…
by - July 20, 2017 2:37 pm
After years of posturing, the Chinese government agreed Thursday (July 20) to allow U.S. rice farmers to export their crops to the largest rice consuming nation on Earth. An agreement…
by - July 19, 2017 7:04 pm
Hytrol, a Jonesboro-based conveyor belt manufacturer, has expanded its workforce to more than 1,200 workers, a 20% increase in the last year, company President David Peacock told Talk Business &…
by - July 17, 2017 3:29 pm
More than 100 years ago, Arkansas State University opened its doors for the first time. Its first classroom space was in downtown Jonesboro. A century later, ASU has a presence…
by - July 17, 2017 10:43 am
Chris Ward was working for the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service in Afghanistan when he realized he needed to do something different on his livestock farm near…
by - July 13, 2017 6:44 pm
Powdered milk in Spain more than 70-years ago may change the modern farming culture in Arkansas. Dan West, an American farmer who volunteered to help fight hunger during the Spanish…
by - July 12, 2017 6:34 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has selected Walnut Ridge businessman, farmer, and outdoors enthusiast Stan Jones to serve on the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Jones farms more than 7,000 soybean and…
by - July 10, 2017 5:37 pm
Lesa Walter has been fascinated by numbers since she was young, and civic and business leaders hope she’ll be able to move Lawrence County’s economic indicators in a positive direction….
by - July 7, 2017 3:48 pm
Farmers may no longer use the herbicide dicamba following a decision Friday (July 7) by the Arkansas Legislative Council Executive Subcommittee to take no action on a ban implemented by…
by - July 6, 2017 6:23 pm
The Arkansas State Plant Board and Gov. Asa Hutchinson have decided that dicamba, a substance used to fight pigweed in cotton crops, has damaged thousands of acres of soybean crops…
by - July 5, 2017 5:49 pm
Arkansas rice farmers will still likely harvest a little more than 1 million acres this fall despite damaging flood waters earlier this spring that impacted much of Northeast Arkansas. But…
by - July 5, 2017 12:25 pm
At least one company that isn’t authorized to sell dicamba in Arkansas after April 15 thinks the governor and the state’s Plant Board are wrong to ban its sale and…
by - June 28, 2017 4:22 pm
The Waters of the U.S. Rules (WOTUS) face significant revisions after the Environmental Protection Agency announced it intends to withdraw from the controversial regulation. WOTUS is the EPA’s right to…
by - June 27, 2017 4:39 pm
There’s hope that a farmer in Arkansas will produce 120 bushels of soybeans on one acre this year. “Grow for the Green,” the perennial competition that challenges the state’s soybean…
by - June 26, 2017 7:47 pm
Peco Foods, Inc. needs to hire up to 250 more workers at its Pocahontas plant and has plans for a $30 million expansion, plant manager Alan Risley told Talk Business…
by - June 25, 2017 8:27 am
The Arkansas State Plant Board issued an emergency ban Friday preventing the use and sale of the herbicide dicamba. The ban comes after more than 240 filed damage complaints, according…
